I don’t recall it but the old brain is not what it used to be and yes if it had the EFH reg I would pesume that I must have registered it at Portsmouth, but I used to buy and sell to Peter Gilder at Stow in the Wold and I think that he had some dealings with good old Brian Palmer.
Incidentally I bought a Scania, which I’ve only just found out on this forum, had apparently been on the Herald of Free Enterprise when it sank! So that must have come from Mr Palmer I never knew and we had no problem with it either!! Small world isn’t it??
This was it, someone on the ‘Woolpit’ thread said it!
That was me with the Herald thing, Palmer, that was the bloke, looked a bit of a thug, but don’t you all Sorry Pat
I took it for a spin & it was fine, TBH I was gutted when my bloke never bought it, it sounded lovely, the 1644 Merc that I got instead was THE most unreliable lorry EVER, I can give you directions to every Merc agent between London & Reggio Calabria
That Palmer bloke, wasn’t he the one who did the Globey cab extensions
Not sure if Brian did the cab roof extentions I bought about 5 kits from old John Myhill up at Foulsham Norfolk. I think that he then sold that business to John McKellar.
Bought quite a few trucks from old John he had a son stewart he sold truck parts all the shiny bits bull bars spotlights etc don’t know if he is still going?
Here’s another one we put a roof on getting on a Britainy Ferry’s boat yours truely at the helm. I had dark hair then LOL
Stuart Myhill, that’s the one, they were up that way too IIRC, had a roof put on an ex North Sea Express F12, it was ok until it rained
Did make them 2/3 series look good though thats for sure, told my old guvner about B500 RDX, he went very quiet…
Keep them photos coming Pat, can’t beat a pic of a smallish firm with an old tilt in faraway places
BTW the old Dutch 111 at the Simplon, how did you get on transitting Swiss with Hazardous, I thought that it was a BIG headache never really used the place much as I run on a blue book & they didn’t like you going through with them, did the Simplon & the San Bernardino though, never took any pics which I regret but I can relive my memories through your David Bailey moments
Did you ever use Stabio instead of Chiasso, spent over a week there when the eyeties lost my passport It was supposedly a lot quicker
Give me time, it’ll come to me, excessive consumption has made the eye/brain connection a bit retarded check back at 3am that’s when it normally clicks
Never went through Swiss until the t-forms finished, that blue book again so if it was bypassed in the early nineties you may be in for a long wait
Did most of the crossings into Italy, from France, Swiss & Austria, proper adventurer me some of them only once, Cenis, Genevro, that one that took you into Cuneo, did the Col de Iseran too, see told you I was a hero
That narrow lane on the steep hill looks a bit like the place we used to load
shoes back from in Como. Tight to turn into, an ‘L’ shaped yard, tight to get
onto the bay, and very tight to screw round (complete jacknife) to get out again.
It’s gotta be coming up out of Susa going up Cenis then, I only did it once as the kermits bless em put a 19t limit through Laslebourg, I was only light, couldn’t do swiss (that blue book again…) so technically I was under 19t, even with that hidden diesel tank at the front of the trailer It looks Italian anyway, I only came down the hill on the Italian side never went up it, I tried looking at the pic in a mirror but all I could see was myself
What a beautiful bit of scenery, I’m gonna sue my mum & dad for not having ■■■ before marriage, a couple of years sooner & I could’ve driven roads like that when I was doing italy
Bloody hell I’ve been over the Cerdon, picked up the old road from just past Pont D’Ain & run it right through Nantua, Bellegarde etc, don’t remember it looking like that though, good news is I don’t have to sue me mum & dad now
Sorry Pat 
It was supposedly a lot quicker 
